Never short on a cause, a group of Anonymous hackers said on Twitter that they have published emails and phone numbers on employees of the Federal Reserve.

The Internet is shadowy place when it comes to validating claims like this. But a spot check of some of the names and titles in the 20,525 line spreadsheet in Google and LinkedIn does turn up matches for names and emails. So with that in mind, some portion of this information was already available, but not, as far as I could find, in one list. (Though, via the Find function I couldn’t seem to find Ben Bernanke, the Fed’s Chairman.)

The group of hackers did not make it entirely clear what’s supposed to happen now that anyone can do something like, say, email an assistant staff director in the Dallas Federal Reserve.

“Full details of every single employee at Federal Reserve Bank of America,” the tweet read from @OpLastResort. “How’s that, FBI? Game. Set. Match. and LULZ.” According to @OpLastResort, the motives for the cause were due to the group’s view that the federal banking system has been defrauding people at home and abroad and needed to be held accountable.

When the vast majority of the world population hangs below the the poverty line, massive profits for a few insiders are beyond criminal.

Also, claims by the FBI that it had dismantled Anonymous seemed to fuel the fire. One of the principles of those claiming association with Anonymous is that there isn’t anything to dismantle — that it’s a decentralized group of hackers with no real leadership.

@OpLastResort offered up a Reddit thread hinging on a story in Vice about a memo “at the heart of the global financial crisis” as further explanation for dumping (“doxing” in hacker parlance) all the Federal Reserve information.

Fed spokesman Jim Strader said The Federal Reserve working with law enforcement but that “the information, which was posted online today, appears to have been obtained during an incident first made public in February. That vulnerability was remediated shortly after discovery and we are confident that the Fed’s critical operations were not affected.”